In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled ...

EXCLUSIVE: The realtor cast of Sony LIV‘s Million Dollar Listing India are getting their portfolios ready. Ahead of the unscripted show’s launch on October 25, Ankush Sayal, Hem Batra ...

However, caste identity is so deeply ingrained in India’s social fabric that simply removing this information from registers is insufficient to eradicate discrimination and segregation.

Even single day's delay in deciding bail plea adversely affects fundamental rights of citizens: SC NEW DELHI: Deprecating the practice of courts keeping bail applications pending for years, the ...

Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the nationalist group RSS, urged the Hindu community to bridge its caste differences ahead of the upcoming elections in the state of Maharashtra. The narrative that divides ...

A modern historian who studies the lives of Dalit women through the lens of caste, gender and sexuality, Paik grew up in India but has been working in the US for 20 years. Spending her childhood i ...

Diwali, the festival of lights, is a culturally and economically significant period in India. In the financial world, Diwali is marked by a special trading session known as “Muhurat trading ...

That is what is happening to the quota issue in India. Few can dare to discuss its ... but who is in those categories keeps changing. The caste and communities who are assertively evoking ...

The Bihar caste survey – the first in independent India to successfully enumerate all castes – last year found that OBCs comprise 63.13% of the state, SCs formed 19.65% and STs 1.68%.

Caste disparities are an important factor behind India having higher rates of stunting among children than sub-Saharan Africa despite the country being richer, a study published on October 26 in ...

Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal ... the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Hindutva agenda has overridden caste as the main factor of Indian politics, many claim. At first glance, that ...